Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 6

A R S ~ lief of the Jewish war THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1916, VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTBENTH. mvnd at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier per month. By mail Sunday.. Fvening ut B mn‘."lufl.‘ Boe, three years in advance. Sena notlce uf change of aaaress or compiaints of rregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. OIB two- cent stamps received in payment of small ae- it counts, Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha~The Buflding. South Omal 8 N street. Counell Bjuffe—14 North Main street. Lincoln—2% Little Bulldln‘f. M ‘o—#fl Hearst Bullding New k—Room 1108, 28 Fifth avenue. 3 IA';—- ew Bank of Commerce. ington—7% Fourteenth 8t., N. W. CORRESPONDENCBE, communications relating to news and edl- k‘d‘r‘h'l- m-n Omaha g'n. itorial Department. DECEMBER CTRCULATION, 53,534 Siate of Nebraska, County of Dou L Publ ht Willlame, :ievlv‘n!ld“'lm manager of T"?:‘ Bee lshing company, being duly sworn,_says e|rvul.€t‘om tor the month of December, & ave! WIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager, anuai RoRERT HO Netary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily stiould have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. When nurses disagree, it devolves upon the doctors to decide, If mecessary, our present accommodating re- publican postmaster might perhaps be persuaded to hold over indefinitely It is evident from the report that the Steel trust is able to sit up and sit in to another of those celebrated Gary dinners, S—— Our Congressman Lobeck will try for another . term—which means that he has placed an order for a fresh supply of gum shoes. comm— The next danger confronting players in the | primary election game is an autograph-collec- tors' trust to bull the market for nominating pe- titions, For the first time since th'- reformation of . the, Unlon Pacific, residents of western Ne- * braske are getting next to the utility of its | curves. i erm—— This is the day speciaily proclaimed by sutferers in all the war- on runners which anchored in front of ti amidat i T i ¥ & - £ £ i i i i ! { i | j i L ;i E i "! THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. A unique sight was presented by the praiile the wintry blasts, & 2x4 sheet iron in front, industriously disposing of tiny on which it was fed. While all with- , the three occupants were comfortable H. Clark of Newton, Kan, was united in The Kaiser. Regardless of war sympathies or neutral- mindedness, no one conversant with history can but marvel at the one towering figure of this stirring world drama, Emperor Willlam 11, of | Germany, who today celebrates his 57th birth- day. Friend and foe alike recognize in him the Hohenzollern house from its founder down the long illustrious line. And, however his influence may in the end be measured by impartial judges, his limitless command of the enthusiastic devo- tion of his people is not to be gainsaid. Without depreciating what was accomplished before his accession, the Germany of today, | which is the wonder of the world, is the product of the policies of Willlam Il—of the man who, scarcely emerged from boyhood, ascended the throne amidst the fears and trepidations of his elders and today at 657 has all Burope daily watching his next move with bated breath, and the united German people, one and all, ready to make any sacrifice for the glory of their country as typified by its imperial ruler. What the fu- ture still has in store for the kaiser no one can tell, but the great scroll is bound to carry his name in big Jetters for all eternity. Getting Down to Brass Tacks. Nebraska democrats are getting down to brass tacks in the state campaign. Having shooed all other candidates out of the ring, in- cluding our good friend, Fdgar Howard, Gover- nor Morehead and Mayor Bryan are about to en- ter a finish fight for control. The governor's one-term pledge was long ago sent to the limbo of other democratic promises, and he Is willing to be drafted for the third term, thus setting a new precedent for Nebraska, Brother Charlie i3 to be the personal representative of the Great Commoner in the struggle to put none but kiln- dried democrats on guard. The record of the present administration, in its muddling of state business, makes a certainty that rough going awaits the candidate, whoever he may be, The future is radiant with signs of trouble for the followers of the donkey in Nebraska. William B. Prescott's Work. Willlam B, Prescott is dead at Chicago. This will not mean a great deal to the public at large, but to those engaged in the printing and publishing business, and to the close student of the economic history of our country, it means the passing of a man of uncommon ability anc great service, Mr. Prescott was a labor leader of the type whose deeds were seldom recorded on the front page of a newspaper, but who mod- estly wrought for the advancement of the worker and the development of a better under- standing between employer and employed. He was preeident of the International Typographi- cal union at the most critical period of its hie- tory, when the Mergenthaler typesetting ma- was coming into general use, and it wae His determined stand that prevented the printers repeating the mistake often made by labor that of opposing the advance In industry, He also ploneered the adoption of the arbitration agree- ne so much to establish and een the newspaper publish- In other ways he con- H s Not a Party Issue, . Congressman Mann of Illinois, republican floor leader in the present congress, has fairly stated the case for preparedness so far as its po- Mitical bearings are concerned. It is not a par- tisan, but a patriotic undertaking. The awak- ‘ening of the country to its defenseless condition y accompanied by the impulse to provide proyer for the defense of the homes and the in- of the nation. . Dreams of enduring bave been completely dispelled, Tecognition of certain unpleasant truths emphasizes the necessity for speedy and definite action In the way of preparation for what may great question to be determined now by what means shall we proceed rectifying a mistake. Discussion of this phase the question has proceeded t5 a polnt where of opinion will produce a plan, but as to its necessity no political division exists, Adopting Republican Doctrine. Slowly but surely Ephraim is being weaned f':)- his idols, afid the democrats are abandon- ing the dogma of the fathers of that supposedly unchangeable party, President Wilson now an- nounces himself as committed to the policy of dealing with the tariff through a permanent nonpartisan board, charged with the duty of making full inquiry, collecting information, and formulating schedules. This is exactly the plan adopted by the republicans, under the last ad- ministration of that party, It was then violently attacked by the democrats, who, on coming to power, tore up the Payne-Aldrich bill, framed on the report and recommendations of a tariff commission, and substituted the Underwood bill, which has failed in every particular. The demo- crats also destroyed the tariff commission, by re- fusing to make appropriation for its continuance, Experience still keeps school at the same old stand, and the tuition fees are as high as ever. 1t is, however, encouraging to note that the democrats who have been attending classes there are showing signs of having learned something, Se— The famous June admonition, “Don't rock the boat,” still commands Colonel Bryan's loy- alty. He has no intention of pursulng the presi- dent—not now. A few weeks later, after the president comes ashore, the colonel will throw & few vocal shells into the preparedness schooner, not because he loves the administra- tion less, but he needs the exercise. SEES————— The Teutonic cccupaney of Scutari signalizes the doom of both Serbia and Montenegro, for the present, at least, and shortens the road to Salo- niki by half. A port on the Aegean Sea has been the dream of the Hapsburgs for half a century and the prospect of realization lends a joyful glow to the lengthening shadows of Francis Joseph. most potent and virile representative of the | A Lecture on Swearing Hartford Times. LECTURE on profanity seems a shocking thing A to be delivered before an assemblage of women, but really it wasn't at all. Can you imagine & talk on oaths, condemnations, and just plain cusa words given In Center Church House without offense to either the living or the departed? Furthermore, can you imagine such a subject being treated with Charles Lamb-like, with Thackerayan gentleness, sim- plicity, charm, grace and wit? Well, it was; and the explanation 18 that the lecturer on swearing wasn't & stevedore, a Lunnon eabby, a sea-ca'n, a boss of A construction gang, & drill sergeant or an irate editor; he was Associate Professor Burges Johnson of Vassar college, and he spoke before the College club of Hart- ford. ““The Everyday Profanity of Our Best People”” was Prof, Johnson's subject, and in the development of It he sald, in part: “I am conxidering it not as a moral question; it is one of taste, of propriety, of education. If it were a moral question it would merely be the taking of the name of the Deity in vain. Not 1 in 1,000 who utters an expletive or an oath has the meaning of it in his heart. ‘“The profanity I speak of does not indicate a laxity of morals, but rather a disease of the vocabulary. The Bncyclopedia Brittanica says ‘oaths are promises made under a nonhuman penalty of sanction.’ As a matter of fact, that covers only ome-third of the ground: caths divide themselves into three classes: First, the as- severative; second, the denunciatory; third, the inter- Jectional. There you have your three great groups. All three have their counterparts In the everyday pro- fanity of our best people. If you were asked if you went to church last Sunday you might say, if yon were Irish, ‘T &id, begorra;’ or if you were a cockney, ‘I did welp me.' Bir Toby Belch said, ‘It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath with & swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives man more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.’ “In the denunclatory group are inciuded some great and worthy oaths. Washington facing the trator, Lee Farragut braving the rebel torpedoes, are examples of the most righteous outbursts in this class. But, after all, the group is swerved from & more moble purposs to be a cheap substitute for deeds. It is easier to drat & situation than to face it. “Now I come to the third, the interjectional groun, with the ejaculations ‘Jove,’ ‘gee whiz,' ‘gosh,’ ‘golly.’ ‘gorry’ and so on. Mo#t of these were once assevera- tive or denunclatery, but time has worn away their sharpness. Of two ancient Romans, watching the awful performances of Vesuvius, one might properly sy, ‘O Jove, look into my heart and read my thoughts on this grandeur, which T cannot express,’ and the other might call on the Geminl, the heavenly twins, to give like expression to his unutterable thoughts. But their descendants stand in the same place, and what do they say? ‘By Jove!' and 'Giminy, ain't it grand!’ ‘‘Gone are the echoing oaths of the day when swear- ing was a fine art. ‘By the thighbone of St. Anthony, #ive way, varlet, ere I spit thee through the giszard!" ‘was a fine old phrase, but in these days when auto- matic revolvers hold sway it is hardly brief enough ~ there is no time to say it. Gone are the cloudwsplitting denunciations of those masters of vituperation, the fathers of the church. When we fling out the high- sounding phrases they seem empty and void of life, They were worked to death. ““Gone are the fine old oaths. Where? Thelr parts may all be found in the dictionary., You may recon- struct the mammoth, but he will not rumpet for you. “Poor oaths! Once appeals to heaven, they have become substitutes for conversation. ‘Well, well,' what does this come from? It's no fit reply to an important communication. ‘It's a beautiful day,’ too, has been used so much as a substitute for “good morning’ 1t loses all its force. We are simply handing you in place of conversation a draft upon the bank that must be cashed. In other words, we fill up the gap in the conversation until we can pay the debt. * ‘Verlly, verlly'—what has become of 1t? What have we Hone to ‘very,’ to ‘truly?’ “The conciusion of the matter is: I do not argue for the destruction, but for the conversation of pro- fanity. I would say to my son: ‘Young man, you may have for conversational use two damns between now and Baster’ What would be the result? A trying situation would come up; the boy would want to use one of his damns, would stop and reflect that a greater emergency might come when he would really need it, and so it would go. And It on Haster Le should wake up with the reflection that he was still two damns to the good and might spend them with damage, I don't think that either he or the day would ‘be harmed by his letting them rip then and there. “How would I limit the ‘swearing’ of your membera? T would say: ‘Madam, between now and the end of the weel T will not allow you any ‘verys.' The effoct on your vocabularies would be desirable. In the same category are ‘perfectly lovely,’ ‘goodness gracious’ and ‘oh,'my." Twice Told Tales Moodooed. Appealing to a lady for ald, an old darkey told her that throush the Dayton flood he had lost every- thing he had in the world, including his wife and aix children. “Why,” sald the lady, “I have seen you befors and I have helped you. Were you not the colored man who told me you had lost your wife and six children by the sinking of the Titanic?" “Yeth, ma'am, dat wuz me. Mos' unfort'nit maa dat eber wuz! Kaint keep a fam'ly nohow."—San Franciaco Argonaut. Getting Posted. One of the freshmen at Yale immediately applied to the proper officer of the university upon the day of his entrance into that institution for information touching his father's stay there before him. I should like to see my father's record,” said )e, “He was In the class of '%." “T shall be glad to show you the record,” said the officer, “but have you any special reason for con- sulting 1t?" “Well" sald the youth, “when I left home dai told me not to disgrace him, and I wish to see just how far I can go."—~New York Times. o People and Events. The fish story season is not yet open, but prac- tice is proceeding. A Jersey amateur reported having cast a line baited with a lighted clgar and hauled out a fish which calmly blew rings from the butt. Next. Owners of “war brides” are not the only Walling- fords on the pike. The wife of a Boston candy maker tipped & waiter with $L000 bill, but subsequently changed her mind and the bill, substituting & tenner. A son of sunny Italy, noted for his industry in kissing other women than his wife, was handed this by & New York court: ‘“For one year you are to kiss nobody but Aliee, your own wife.” lsu't that awful on a man of diversified tastes? Somehow a small cartridge slipped into the pipa of Charley Rutledge of Unionville, N. J. When the smoke of the explosion lifted Charley was found with & bit of the stem between his teeth, his eyes doped with ashes and the glass of a wall picture shattered Bernard de Clark of Paterson, N. J,, doesn't hide his heart's desires under his vest. Hia pockets bulge with & salary of §12 a week and & ready bought dlamond ring, both ready for the right girl, “If wou want an ideal husband,” he says in a want ad, “one who is a home lover and & sweet tempered man, here s your chance.” Say, girls, isn't Barney & dear? The Pees effer Testimonial of a Patient, OMAHA, Jan. #.—To the Editor of The Bee: I was surprised and shocked at the article In your paper headed, ““Nurse Tells Startling Story of Conditions at City Hospital.” Fortunately for relatives and friends of those who are afflicted with contagious diseases and are confined in this hospital, ! have had occasion to know existing conditions. By reason of the fact that my niece s & patient there, serfously il with scarlet tever and complications, I have frequently visited the emergency hospital and know that she, as weoll as others, ha received the most careful attention, and that gen- eral satisfaction pervades the institution. Being interested in eivie conditions and the general welfare of the city, I have made it a part of my duty while there to particularly observe care of all pa- | tients, and have personally visited them for this purpose, as well as to offer a word of cheer snd comfort. While there 1 have been required to take the same precautions that physiclans take, and have found disinfectants available at any time, In talking with those afflicted I have endeavored to ascertain if there has been any neglect or Incompetency on the part of physiclans or attendants, and I am pieased to say that without a single ex- ception all spoke in the highest praise of | care received, this applying to ecity charges as well as those who are paying for service. MRS, F. J. BIRSS, Chairman Civic Committee Omaha Wo- man’s Club. Getting Together. OXFORD, Neb., Jan. 2.—To the Editor of The Bee: Some of the leaders of the so-called progressive party hgve adver- tised a convention to meet in Chicago at the same time that the natfonal repub- lican convention is to be called. These men, after proclaming that their party came into existence like the republican party, to contend for a great moral principie, proceeded to compliment them- selves for their patriotic work and wound up by reaffirming their faith in that historic jumble called their 1912 plat- form. They somewhere let it be known that should the republicans nominate the progressive candidates and swallow their pet platform, they would then go Into the republican party, but made it clear that they would leave the door open so they could come out with as big a following as possible whenever they feit they were not getting proper attention. As a republican I have always believed and worked that the party should be responsive to the people’s needs and their wishes. 1 realize that harmony is much to be desired in the party organis tion and fs necessary that success and good results may be accomplished, but 1 belleve that it should be an honorable harmony and not just a politicel com- bine to secure office. The thousands of republicans who were carried out of the party in 1912 by the sophistries of the progessive movement are back in the republican party today. In fact, a great majority of them never contemplated leaving the party, but could not resist following their political idol, Theodore Roosevelt. Now we find the leaders of the misnomered progres- sive party without a following, yet pos- sessed of cheek to run a bluff in hopes of ‘dictating terms. That party was or- @anized for the advancement of no moral issue, but pure unadulterated spite, and for the sole purpose of defeating the republican party and its oandidates. The proof of this statement need not rest on my assertion, but has substantial proof in the position its leaders took In Cali- fornia, Nebraska and other states to de- fraud the republican voters at the polls. The party split over Taft and Roosevelt is a thing of the past and I can work with & man who did not vote as T aid and was not bashful about styling him- self a progressive while stigmatising me as, a stand-patter. I can joke with him over past differences and stand with him shoulder to shoulder in buflding up the republican party, mot simply to capture the offices and administrative prestige, but that it may be as it always has been a party with a sane, workable policy that will bring prosperity and respect to our government and will place men at the head with a caliber and statesmanship by which the civilized world may know that we have a stable, honest and efficient policy, that will be fearlessly administered in our domestic and forelgn relations. On the other hand, I have nothing in common with the bull moose organisation and nouse for a fusionist, and I serve notice that any bifurcated candidate who files as being a member of the republican and also of the progressive party, will find one republican vote missing in the final count. A. C. RANKIN. Stmple, Oh, So Simpl NORTH LOUP, Neb,, Jan. 26—~To the Editor of The Bee: I might describe the shell of which a iute appeared in The Bee a few weeks ago. The object is to get the greatest amount of the highest explosive known to chemical sclence within a shell which may be fired from the high-powered guns. You ask how this may be done, knowing that the very high explosives are so very sensitive to vibra- tion. The real problem was to arrange the mechanical part of it to a simplicity, I have done a great deal of work on the design to arrange the parts and reduce the parts to four or five pleces which will stand the shock of the gunfire. The shell is to be arranged into ‘as many separate compartments running the full length of It as there are elements com- posing the explosive. In the center is a small barrel an inch in diameter, run- ning parallel. Within this barrel is an auger, either end running through wooden pistons which close the ports of the com- partments to the barrel. This auger, when it begins its rapid movement after the discharge of the shell, by a time fuse, draws the pistons off from the ports, forming a bearing for the ends of the auger. This is effected by right and left thread on the ends of the auger. A liquid explosive 1s to be used. It is gen- erally known that the elements of nitro- glycerine and other high explosives are harmless until they are combined. Those eloments are run into the shell from the side and plugged. The elements are not put in until the shell is to be usd. Two or three minutes after the shell is discharged the auger begins the rapid movement and draws the chemical ele- I time fuses. After the combination of the elements. The back part of the shell is #0 arranged that the shock of the gun does not affect it. It is all controlled by double or triple fuses. | be cast and the central barrel reamed | The mechanical parts would not cost | $19, and so arranged that the shock of the gunfire should not disturb them. A twenty-inch shéll should carry from twenty to thirty gallons of the highest | explosive known to chemical science. The dynamo remains locked until released by the fuse. The latter compartments are Accessible, being round and longitudinal | This gives plenty of strength when cov- ered with caps, that the discharge of the gun will not break through. This is a general description only. The object of the shell Is to lift a fortification about a mile high, With no respect as to whers it will alight. The shell may be made to carry twonty miles. The construction is very simple WALTER JOHNSON. CHEERY CHAFF. ‘Was that operation you performed ul, doctor?" | succe "I can’t tell yet. The patient's widow | won't pay my fee, apd my lawyer ad- vises suing the estate.”’—Baitimore Amer- ! jean, | First Poy—What is this big-brother | movement. Second Boy—Well, as I lick any boy who understand it never has a big | brother.—Life. DEAR MA. KADIBBLE, MY FIANCE AND I HAVE HAD RREL —\WHO SHOULD FIRSY ? “What's the honeymoon, pa? “The honeymoon, my son, is the only period In a man's lifé during which he conglders it funny to come home and find that his dear little wife hasn't dinner ready on time."—Boston Transcript. Minister—Tommy, I'm surprised. Don't you know that good little boys don't skate on Sunday’ Tommy—Yes, an’ I'm glad dey don’t— The parts may | dere’'s more room on de ice for us boys who do.—~Boston Transcript George (nervously) , dear, I am |about to ask you to- Madge (breaking in)—Wait juet a min- |ute while I fix my hair. (8he runs out of the room, and returns holding a dicta- graph behind her,) |T've got a cold.- Speak loudly, dear, iren | Edith—1 was surprised to hear of your engagement to Mr. Bullyon. Was he the |only man with sand enough to propose? Marie—~Oh, no; but he was the only one | with_rocks enough to interest me.—Bos- | ton Transeript. Do you think your husband’'s taste in | music is improving?”* [ Oh, yes, I can't break him of the habit ‘of golng to sleep at a concert. Bu [he doesn't snore as much off the key |an ~Washington Star. Sacramento Bee. 1 like to think that high upon some star, | 'Mid pillard beauty all past dreamers | are— | The souls that saw great visions for the world, i Who dared the heights and sunmost safls unfuried, And, as Columbus never fainted at the elm, But steered straight for the undiscovered realm, Black though the night upon the win- nowed wave, Rebellious though all frightened spirits rave— I like to think that all these prophets as | To nl;ulonn ready for their visions vast! 1 like to think that music there is hedrd, Such as our tiny hands have never stirred— A symphony that rings upon the ear As mighty as the clang of sphere on sphere, by Thor-like hammers A harmony ‘wrought. Timed by the throbbing metronome of | Thought; Creating masterpieces for the untverse, In which the dreams of ages they im- merse, Until the planetary pulse will bring To earth some echo of the song they sing! T like to think that listening dreamers ere Will catch some message from that ring- ing sphere, However faintly, yet will weave it in, An anthem loud sbove the idle din, Until all men will hear its beat in awe And nearer to world unison will draw. The moving word will point the path to peace And all the urge of armament will cease, While nations will forget thelr warning hate And fabrics, hitherto undreamed, create' A A ettt A i (LR RERLR R EHEEEE TR AL LA B AL PR e T A Chicago Pascenger Terminal, FAST SPLENDIDLY Single Rooms, without bath, Single Rooms, with bath, Double . . . 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